dux bellorum
English
Etymology
From Latin dux (leader) + bellum (battle, war).
Noun
dux bellorum (plural duces bellorum)
- A war leader or warlord
- 1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, volume 2, page 506:
- The desperate kings turned to a dux bellorum -- no monarch, but in those times something far more prestigious: a military commander of great gifts and courage […]